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Author: Craig P. Bauer
ISBN : B00COX2Y8C
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Download electronic versions of selected books Free Secret History: The Story of Cryptology from with Mediafire Link Download LinkMost available cryptology books primarily focus on either mathematics or history. Breaking this mold, Secret History gives a thorough yet accessible treatment of both the mathematics and history of cryptology. Requiring minimal mathematical prerequisites, the book presents the mathematics in sufficient detail and weaves the history throughout the chapters. In addition to the fascinating historical and political sides of cryptology, the author—a former Scholar-in-Residence at the U.S. National Security Agency Center for Cryptologic History—includes interesting instances of codes and ciphers in crime, literature, music, and art.Books with free ebook downloads available Free Secret History: The Story of Cryptology
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- Print Length: 620 pages
- Publisher: Chapman and Hall/CRC; 1 edition (April 11, 2013)
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- Language: English
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Narrating a compelling and interesting story about cryptography is not an easy endeavor. Many authors have tried and failed miserably; attempting to create better anecdotes about the adventures of Alice and Bob. David Kahn did the best job of it when wrote The Codebreakers: The story of secret writing in 1967 and set the gold standard on the information security narrative. Kahn's book was so provocative and groundbreaking that the US Government originally censored many parts of it.
A lot has changes since 1967, and while Secret History: The Story of Cryptology is not as groundbreaking, it also has no government censorship. With that, the book is fascinating read that provides a combination of cryptographic history and the underlying mathematics behind it.
As a preface; the book has cryptology in its title, which is for the most part synonymous with cryptography. Since cryptography is more commonly used, I'll use it in this review.
Kahn himself wrote that he felt this book is by far the clearest and most comprehensive of the books dealing with the modern era of cryptography including classic ciphers and some of the important historical ones such as Enigma and Purple; but also newer systems such as AES and public-key cryptography.
The book claims that the mathematics detailed in it are accessible requiring minimal mathematical prerequisites. But the reality is that is does require at least a college level understanding, including algebra, calculus and more.
As an aside, nearly every book on encryption and cryptography that claims no advanced mathematical knowledge is needed doesn't meet that claim.